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BFI London Film Festival reveals 2015 programme
Other | Tuesday 1st September 2015 | Christina
Hitting the capital from October 7th – 18th, the BFI have revealed the full programme for their London Film Festival.
The LFF opens strongly with the historical drama Suffragette, penned by Abi Morgan and starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham-Carter and Meryl Streep, and closes with Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, which features Michael Fassbender in the titular role.
With the festival screening more than 200 feature films, there are plenty more that are well worth a watch. Beasts of No Nation, a Netflix original film directed by Cary Fukunaga, who delivered the excellent first series of True Detective, is the story of a African child solider with Idris Elba taking on the role of a warlord. It screens on October 8th. The following day brings Ben Wheatley’s highly anticipated J.G. Ballard adaptation High-Rise, starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Elisabeth Moss and Sienna Miller.
The Program, the story of the rise and fall of Lance Armstrong directed by Stephen Frears, screens on October 10th, with Ben Foster starring as the disgraced cyclist and Chris O’Dowd as the Irish journalist David Walsh who’s set to prove his guilt. Johnny Depp’s latest, Black Mass, in which he takes on the role of infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, with Benedict Cumberbatch as his politician brother, shows on October 11th.
LFF is showing many of the films that featured at Cannes earlier this year, including the Grand Prix winner Son Of Saul on October 10th, Yorgios Lanthimos’ The Lobster on October 13th, and Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara on October 14th.
It’s shaping up to be an incredible twelve days of cinema. For info on how to get tickets, head to the BFI website.
